Strong storms brought damaging winds and flash flooding Sunday to Jefferson City and Central Missouri, and Monday's forecast includes more rain.
Meteorolgist Gary Schmocker with the National Weather Service in St. Louis said from about 3:30-5:30 p.m., their Doppler Radar estimated 1-3 inches of rain fell in many portions of Central Missouri.
"We've got a stationary front that moved in Sunday afternoon," Schmocker said. "It's staying around I-70 in Central Missouri and it could lead to more strong storms on Monday and Tuesday, particularly in the afternoon and evening hours.
Some of Monday's storms may be severe with damaging winds, large hail, and locally heavy rain.
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Officials with the Jefferson City Fire Department reported they had 25 calls related to Sunday's storms. This included nine for water rescues, but they didn't have to take action on all of those.
The area of U.S. 50 and Jefferson Street, as well as The Millbottom Area, were flooded thanks to the heavy rains causing Wears Creek to rapidly rise. Another area along Wears Creek that was hard hit was Washington Park and Vivion Field.
"Whenever we have events like this, there's a bunch of us at the department who immediately think, 'I wonder if the water got into the ice arena,'" Jefferson City Parks and Recreation Director Todd Spalding said. "We have the typical damage that you would think of when you have these type of storms. We did lose power at Riverside Park, so we'll see if that affected the pumps at the pools. We've got a lot of clean-up to get to starting Monday morning."
Also dealing with flooding were areas along Gray's Creek. JCFD officials said flooding was reported at residences in the 1500 block of East McCarty Street, 400 block of Christopher Place, and homes on Bald Hill Road and East Elm Street. The Red Cross was helping some residences find shelter after being displaced by the flooding. There was also a report of a sink hole at Vetter Lane and Miller Street.
As of 8:30 p.m., officials with Ameren Missouri reported an estimated 600 customers were without power and another 38 were out in Western Cole County. Spokesperson Erin Davis said crews were reporting the majority of the outages were caused by lighting strikes or trees being blown down and onto power lines. As of 4:55 a.m. Monday, outages in Mid-Missouri were reported in the single digits on Ameren's outage map.
Despite the damage, emergency officials reported no injuries in relation to the storms.
Additional resources:
Corps of Engineers Missouri River basin reports
Ameren's Truman and Bagnall Dam daily report
National Weather Service updates for Missouri on Twitter